Before there was Zac Efron, Before there was Brad Pitt and before there was George Clooney There were the Old Hollywood Hearthrobs of the Silver Screen. They were suave, they were debonair they were sexy. Let's take a look at five Old Hollywood Hunks, Rudolph Valentino, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, Cary Grant and Sean Connery

RUDOLPH VALENTINO

Rudolph Valentino starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik.

He was an early pop icon, a sex symbol of the 1920s, who was known in Hollywood as the "Latin lover" or simply as "Valentino".[1] His premature death at the age of 31 caused mass hysteria among his female fans and further propelled his status as a cultural film icon.

CLARK GABLE

Clark Gable He began his career appearing as an extra in Hollywood silent films between 1924 and 1926, and progressed to supporting roles with a few films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1930. The next year, he landed his first leading role, and over the next three decades, he was a leading man in more than 60 motion pictures. Gable was best known for Gone With The Wind (1939), as Rhett Butler opposite co-star Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (1934),[2] and was nominated for leading roles in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) His last film was with Marilyn Monroe in the Misfits in 1961. Lets take a look at this Old Hollywood Hunk often referred to as "The King of Hollywood".   

TYRONE POWER

Film Star Tyrone Power started out in show business as radio actor. From the 1930s to the 1950s, Power appeared in dozens of films, often in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads. His better-known films include The Mark of Zorro, Blood and Sand Marie Antoinette oposite Norma Shearer and Nightmare Alley.

Though largely a matinee idol in the 1930s and early 1940s and known for his striking looks. 

CARY GRANT  

English-American actor Cary Grant is known as one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. He began a career in Hollywood in the early 1930s, and became known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor, light-hearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing. He is best known for Leading man roles in romantic comedies and screwball comedy films such as The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938). Grant forged a working relationship with the director Alfred Hitchcock, appearing in films such as Suspicion (1941), Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959). In 1999, the American Film Institute named Grant the second greatest male star of Golden Age Hollywood cinema. 

SEAN CONNERY 

Scottish Actor Sean Connery Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film. He starred in seven Bond films, between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His film career also includes such films as Marnie, The Name of the Rose, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. He was voted by People magazine as both the “Sexiest Man Alive” in 1989 and the “Sexiest Man of the Century” in 1999. Let's take a look at Hollywood's sexiest leading man of the 20th century in the video above.

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